Today I was looking at some .Net 3.5 source code and ran into these great comments.  //ok, this is a hairy, dirty, and nasty piece of code //the alternatives are substantially worse than this though //i.e. when you do your own provider, LINQ assumes that //you are going to implement your own expression...

Today I was trying to run some code and I could not figure out why it was failing.  When I looked at the logs I noticed it would run one time, then fail.  Took me a minute to realize why this was failing, but finally it hit me.  (No, this is not my code, in fact today was the first time...

Have you ever wanted to or needed to view the actual contents of the GAC? Not just what is in the GAC, but actually grab the assemblies that are there? I know I have. You may be asking WHY did you want to grab an assembly that is in the GAC. 2 reasons: I wanted to move a copy of the assmebly from one...

Today I was trying to root out a bug when I noticed a little red ReSharper icon in my right hand gutter. I took a look because I knew the code compiled, but according to ReSharper there was some buggy code. So I clicked the icon to have a look. Let me know if you see what is wrong with this (the code...

There is a post on DZone today about having a return statement in a finally block. When I first read the code it thought it was odd that this was even allowed. Not to mention that any sane, rational developer would put a return in a finally block. I did not really believe the author when he explained...

Here is a simple snippet of code that I always forget and have to look up time and time again. This will check to see if a value (string or int) is a match for a enum. This can be useful when trying to load data from a database which is in key the form and you would like to represent that value as an...

All, just came across some 'interesting' code today. Can anyone point out what is wrong with this? public bool SomeMethodNameHere( bool someParamNameHere ) { if ( this == null ) { return true; } else { .... } }